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We offer a range of postgraduate short courses which can be taken individually or combined over a period of time towards a Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development.

Each short course is worth credit points. Details of credit points are available on the information about each short course.

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The Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development is awarded when a combination of short courses worth 60 credit points in total have been successfully completed.

You can choose to complete one short course and then return to take a further course at a later stage (any credits will be retained for you). To maintain currency, it is recommended that combinations of short courses leading to the award of the Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development are completed within a five year timeframe.

Short courses are also available in a range of different formats to help meet the flexibility required by those currently in employment such as block (three full consecutive days during one week), weekly (morning, afternoons or evenings), staggered (three or four days across a twelve week semester) or online (with no need to attend a University campus).

Payments for each short course can also be made over a number of months.

Please contact us if you want to find out any further information about any of the short courses available.

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This course focuses on the formulation, characterisation and evaluation of novel pharmaceutical delivery systems based on nanotechnology.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To equip students with a critical understanding of the underlying principles of advanced, technically challenging research methods in biotechnology.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Coleraine campus

Enabling students from a variety of disciplines to increase their knowledge in relation to the advancement of effective and proactive continence care.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Enables the student to carefully consider a range of issues related to advancing care for people with a stoma across the lifespan

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Assists the student to identify ways in which they can act as a positive force for the advancement of well-being in people with urological disorders

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Industry focused and designed to cover topics that address key industry challenges within the themes of Digital Construction.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This module will provide students with the skills to complete an assessment of the MH needs of pregnant women and new mothers.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This module aims to provide the scientific knowledge and skills necessary for understanding and implementing biodiversity management.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This short course develops essential skills, knowledge & understanding of biomedical informatics in relation to basic & applied research and practice.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To provide students with insight into the main concepts and principles of Building Information Modelling / Management.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Provides opportunities to develop new approaches to resource management and building teams within schools.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course covers how built asset management translates organisational objectives into property-related decisions, plans and actions.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To help develop skills and knowledge to support successful business change programmes within an organisation.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course aims to critically evaluate, develop and apply business practice and commercial awareness in the marketing of pharmaceutical services.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course focuses on the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the wider context of business sustainability and the triple bottom line.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course details the regulatory and clinical guidance which is required to ensure the use of clinical tests are evidence-based.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course integrates knowledge of the clinical trials process with patient recruitment.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course provides an understanding of the importance of clinical and research ethics and governance, including regulatory processes involved.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This short course embraces the use of online environments to promote collaborative learning, to meet the professional needs of teachers and educators.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Prepares safe & effective Community Nurse Prescribers who are competent to prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for Community Prescribers

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To provide students with the knowledge of compliance & administration processes, required to fulfil the role of an effective governance professional.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To provide students with the knowledge of compliance & administration processes, required to fulfil the role of an effective governance professional.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course introduces participants to the main stages of the conflict cycle and to key intervention strategies used to resolve conflict.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course focuses on fundamental aspects of law and contractual procedures affecting professional practice in the construction industry.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

The aim of this course is to equip participants with the ability to address and critique issues that are of relevance to both tourism and hospitality.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course provides an insight into claims management and the consequences of failing to resolve issues that can escalate into a dispute.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To equip students to effectively respond to governance challenges organisations face to ensure highest standards of effective corporate governance.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To equip students to effectively respond to governance challenges organisations face to ensure highest standards of effective corporate governance.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Introduce students to entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship with a particular focus on developing sustainable business models in creative industries.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course critically examines the wider environment in which event organisers must plan and manage their event.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To provide students with the skills and knowledge they need to be at the forefront of design innovation and to make a positive impact on the world.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Multi-disciplinary module providing opportunity for healthcare professionals to advance their knowledge in meeting needs of those living with diabetes

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Strategies for success in the digital era.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To provide learners with an understanding of the application of digital construction processes and technologies in the AECFM sector.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course focuses on understanding of the processes involved from drug discovery and development to how the drugs are brought to the market place.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course provides core knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and lifecycle stages of emergency planning, response and resilience.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course provides an introduction into how energy is measured, techniques for saving energy and how to influence those around us in saving energy.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course is designed to meet a need for engineers and energy professionals to deliver energy conscious and environmentally sustainable solutions.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course focuses on practice, methods & planning of language teaching, to examine classroom practice, embed & enhance creativity in the classroom.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Coleraine campus

This short course introduces participants to information technology and presentation skills relevant to the environmental manager/researcher.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course introduces environmental impact assessment, the methodology of carrying out an environmental audit and environmental management systems.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This module provides knowledge and skills necessary to understand the impact of chemicals in the environment.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course introduces participants to the events industry, the event planning process and the complexities involved in organising events.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

An introduction to econometric theory & techniques, especially linear regression analysis, hypothesis testing & application with financial time series

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This short course provides an introduction to the financial services industry with a focus on investments.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course provides an advanced introduction to key concepts, ideas and debates in this field of study of peace and conflict studies.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This short course introduces students to the subject of management, organisational structures and strategy.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This module examines the methods by which data can be stored, accessed and manipulated in order to provide high quality databases for GI Systems

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course examines the methods by which data can be stored, accessed and manipulated in order to provide high quality databases for GI Systems

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course introduces GIS relevant management and decision making concepts in business and society.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This short course focuses on firm internationalisation and the key issues that affect marketing decisions in an international and global context.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course covers a range of concepts, issues and practices that are relevant to the study of global marketing.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Develop and enhance the student knowledge base and practice of health assessment and facilitate the development of problem solving skills

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This short course provides an understanding of the complex provision of economically viable therapeutics in healthcare.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course focuses on advances in hydrogen safety technologies, including but not limited to prevention and mitigation strategies.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course focuses on advances in hydrogen safety technologies, including but not limited to prevention and mitigation strategies.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To introduce and describe the concepts and the methods of in silico based manipulation and analysis of genome, proteome and metabolome.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Encourage students to consider alternative strategies to enhance educational development of pupils with SEN within a changing educational environment.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To equip students with a critical understanding of the key principles, technologies and applications of biotechnology in various industrial sectors.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Coleraine campus

Introducing students to the phenomenon of 'LegalTech', or the deployment of technologyinto legal work and the administration of justice.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This short course explores organisational innovation from an operational or practice perspective as a key aspect of business development.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course provides participants with the ability to select and apply appropriate methods and instrumentation for quality control/quality assurance.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Students will gain an understanding of the principle means by which information is governed in our increasingly information-centred society.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This short course is designed to develop students' understanding of current issues which shape practices in education across the globe.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Develop students understanding of principles of personalised medicine & encourage them to consider the fundamental aspects & issues within this field.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Leadership at all levels of the school matters in enhancing student learning, helping improve learning and teaching in classrooms and schools.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Leadership at all levels of the school matters in enhancing student learning, helping improve learning and teaching in classrooms and schools.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

The aim of this course is to provide participants with a comprehensive framework of knowledge concerning the management and leadership of people.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To provide students with the skills and understanding sufficient to be able to design, implement & critique mathematical analysis of biomedical data.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Develop critical skills to understand how symbolic and cultural struggles can be addressed in conflict transformation processes.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course focuses on the application of organisation and management theory to construction projects.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course looks at approaches, actors, activities and spheres of action of peacebuilding in a range of societies emerging from violent conflict.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to monitor pollution of the environment.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Develops the students' decisions making skills and assessment of risk to work safely and effectively in forensic healthcare settings.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course introduces the theory and practice of GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course introduces the theory and practice of GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course focuses on the fundamentals of hydrogen safety applicable to existing and foreseeable hydrogen and fuel cell systems and infrastructure.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course focuses on the fundamentals of hydrogen safety applicable to existing and foreseeable hydrogen and fuel cell systems and infrastructure.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Provides the student with the necessary knowledge and skills required to understand what challenging behaviour is

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Provides the student with the necessary knowledge and skills to work under supervision in assessing/screening an individual with a learning disability

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course contextualises the infrastructure deficit and critically appraises the innovative approaches to procuring infrastructure.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Master the Art of Mediation: Gain Invaluable Insight into Conflict Resolution and Legal Dispute Management through Role-Play and Practical Application

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This module gives students an introduction to programming skills and their application in GIS and Remote Sensing.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course is designed to allow participants to master the twin tracks of managing a construction project and leading a business organisation.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course introduces the concepts of project management, examines the recognised practices involved in the project management function.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course provides an understanding of the regulatory compliance issues critical to a role in financial services in the 21st Century.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This module addresses the scope of remotely-sensed images as another source of GIS data as well as extending mutual benefits of data integration.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course addresses the scope of remotely-sensed images as another source of GIS data as well as extending mutual benefits of data integration.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

The aim of this course is to appreciate, analyse and evaluate current solar thermal and solar photovoltaic technologies.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To expand practice & knowledge of user experience, design thinking & service design, providing creative direction & support for emerging practice.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This will equip you to accurately produce & critically analyse the interpretation of spirometry readings, leading to an accurate diagnosis & treatment

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To provide a comprehensive understanding of current developments in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine as a disruptive biotechnology.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Coleraine campus

To provide learners with real-world examples of technologies to promote active, deeper learning of the opportunities through digital marketing.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To equip students with the tools necessary to carry out an effective strategic analysis of any organisation.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To equip students with the tools necessary to carry out an effective strategic analysis of any organisation.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course introduces participants to the diverse sources, technologies and applications of energy from biomass.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To provide students with an overview of synthetic biology and its application to biotechnological innovation.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Coleraine campus

This course identifies how an online digital communication strategy can enable an organisation to critically evaluate online performance.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

To develop and enhance knowledge in relation to proactive, person-centered continence management

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Helps healthcare professionals to identify how they can play an increasingly influential role in assisting the person living with a stoma

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Assisting healthcare professionals to play a greater role in urological care

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Designed for all students to help develop their abilities in critical reflection on their practice & development & application of curriculum theory.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

To provide students with an understanding of key principles of tourism & hospitality, the structures for both, and how they have been operationalised.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

This course provides an opportunity for participants to develop their understanding of processes in the environment and in water treatment.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This module provides an introduction to web-based GIS using a range of languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2025/26

This course provides an introduction to web-based GIS using a range of languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

This course will introduce participants to wind energy theory and technology, resource assessment and wind farm site development.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Train with Mediation NI's highly experienced tutors who combine classroom and practical sessions to help you qualify as a professional mediator.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Belfast campus

Train with Mediation NI's highly experienced tutors who combine classroom and practical sessions to help you qualify as a professional mediator.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Derry~Londonderry campus

Train with Mediation NI's highly experienced tutors who combine classroom and practical sessions to help you qualify as a professional mediator.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25

Derry~Londonderry campus

This course focuses on a comprehensive, detailed and systematic understanding of the impact of zoonoses on public health and pharmacy practice.

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Part-time Postgraduate

Year of entry: 2024/25